Literary usage of Retracting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1.The History of the French Revolution by Adolphe Thiers, Frederic Shoberl (1866)"He was prompt in giving his opinion, but equally prompt in retracting it as soon
as any one proved to him that he was wrong, or as soon as Carnot had spoken ..."

2.Pennsylvania, Province and State: A History from 1609 to 1790 by Albert Sidney Bolles (1899)"He was abroad at the time of Charles's restoration, and preferred exile to
retracting his political faith. For seventeen years he had lived abroad; ..."

3.A Brief for the Trial of Civil Issues Before a Jury by Austin Abbott, William Charles Wermuth (1922)"retracting. If a party, after causing a witness: to be sworn, or a deposition to
be taken, refuses to examine the witness or read the deposition, ..."

4.The Law Relating to Particulars and Conditions of Sale on a Sale of Land by William Frederick Webster (1889)"CONDITION AS TO retracting BIDDING. In the absence of stipulation, any bidding
may be retracted before the hammer is down: Payne v. ..."

5.The House of Howard by Gerald Brenan, Edward Phillips Statham (1907)"... and without retracting any of the opinions which he had maintained. His name
is still remembered in the North Country. " It is long, very long ago," ..."